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Sri Lankan soldiers escorted a group of students from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura on a tour of Mullaitivu this week, showing them around the ‘Final Battle Zone’.
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Graduates and lecturers from the ‘Mass Media and Writing Course’ were taken on a tour of the district, where troops “conducted a briefing and explained the general economic, social and other aspects of Mullaittivu population,” according to an official military website.
The students were also taken to the “Final Battle Zone” where tens of thousands of Tamil civilians were killed by Sri Lankan army shelling. The final beach front where the armed conflict ended is located in Mullaivaikkal in Mullaitivu.
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